[Rarebooks] fs-A Selection from Stock, with Images

[Joe Luttrell]

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1.  HOWARD, John.  The State of the Prisons in England and Wales,
With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign
Prisons. Baumgartner 1.  Printed by William Eyres, and Sold by T.
Cadell [etc.], Warrington, 1777.  Early cloth, gilt, a bit dusty,
but a very good untrimmed copy. [69543 XYL78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69543   $ 1,250.00

First edition of Howard's masterwork, bringing to the public's
attention as no-one before had ever done the horrific conditions in
England's prisons, and so undergirding the major reforms of
criminal law and its punishments then just commencing.

2.  [MANLEY, William].  A Collection Of The Laws of the Customs
Now in Force, To prevent Frauds and Abuses in the Revenue . . .
Being An Abridgement of several Acts of Parliament . . . Wherein
are contained The Powers given by the Laws now in Force [etc.].
Goldsmiths 7924.  Printed by Thomas Baskett . . . for Robert
Vincent [etc.], London, 1742.  ?Later 1/2 calf, rubbed, title
clipped, else a good untrimmed copy. [69523 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69523     $ 850.00

A rare work, seeking to provide "outdoor officers" with sufficient
legal knowledge to stem fraud, digesting the laws from the 14th
century onwards, providing opinions of counsel on doubtful points,
and listing the legal wharfs; three copies in RLIN.

3.  SAUNDERS, Thomas William.  A Treatise upon the Law Applicable
to Negligence.  Butterworths, 7, Fleet Street, Law Publishers
[etc.], London, 1871.  Contemporary calf, rubbed, joints just
cracking, ex-Procurators Library Glasgow (with its gilt device), a
bit of pencilling, yet a good clean copy. [69569 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69569     $ 450.00

First edition of the work which as of the date of its preface was
the first treatise on negligence at English law, introducing the
test of the reasonable man in its first sentence; with separate
treatment of employees, bailees and doctors, inter alia.

4.  SELDEN, John.  Mare Clausem, The Right and Dominion of the Sea
[with] Additional Evidences Concerning the Right of Soveraignty and
Dominion of the Kings of Great Brittain In the Sea [with] Dominium
Maris; The Dominion of the Sea [etc.]. Wing S2431.  Printed for
Andrew Kembe and Edward Thomas [etc.], London, 1663.  Contemporary
calf, quite worn, rebacked, ex-library, some dustiness and
browning, yet a serviceable copy; with a 1648 ?opinion of counsel
bound in. [69622 BLS455] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69622   $ 1,250.00

One of only two English translations of Selden's signal
contribution to international law, written in reply to Grotius'
'Mare Liberum', "now seen as an early example of 'modern' natural
law", with Selden becoming known as the 'English Grotius'.

5.  THAYER, James Bradley.  A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at
the Common Law. Part I. Development of Trial by Jury.  Little,
Brown, and Company, Boston, 1896.  Original buckram boards, the
front board gilt, showing wear and a bit strained, light browning,
yet a usable copy. [69741 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69741     $ 250.00

The first part of Thayer's famed treatise, characterized by Holmes
to Pollock as an "admirable piece of work", separately issued two
years before the main work appeared in 1898, with Thayer's
explanatory prefatory note, excluded in the 1898 edition.

6.  [WAR CRIMES TRIALS].  John Cameron (ed.) [editors vary].  The
Peleus Trial [with] The Belsen Trial [with] The Gozawa Trial [with]
The Hadamar Trial [with] The Natzweiler Trial [with] The
Falkenhorst Trial [with] The Velpke Baby Home Trial [with] The
Double Tenth Trial [with] The Dulag Luft Trial. Nine Volumes.
William Hodge and Company, Limited, Edinburgh, 1948-52.  Original
cloth, gilt, occasionally dustiness here and there, but
well-preserved, in the dustjackets. [69813 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69813   $ 1,250.00

An exceptionally attractive, complete set of the most difficult to
locate of Hodges' trials series, with forewords provided by, among
others, Robert S. Jackson, Viscount Jowitt, Earl Mountbatten,
Norman Birkett, Hersch Lauterpacht, and Lord Shawcross.

7.  WARD, Robert.  A Treatise of the Relative Rights and Duties of
Belligerent and Neutral Powers, in Maritime Affairs [etc.] [with]
An Essay on Contraband: Being a Continuation of the [above]
Treatise [with separate title, but paginated continuously].  [1]
Printed for J. Butterworth; [2] Printed for J. Wright, London,
1801.  Contemporary calf, rebacked, some wear, but a good copy,
presented by Lieutenant General William Thornton to the Royal
Institution, with his bookplate. [69573 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69573     $ 450.00

The carefully considered work upon the still vexed issues of
neutrality and contraband by the Inner Temple barrister and protege
of Eldon, praised by Holdsworth as the sole Englishman to write
upon international law from a philosophical perspective.

8.  WILKES, George.  Shakespeare, From an American Point of View;
Including an Inquiry as to . . . His Knowledge of Law: With the
Baconian Theory Considered.  Sampson Low, Marson, Searle, &
Rivington, London, 1877.  Original brown cloth, gilt, somewhat
faded and worn, a bit of foxing, but a sound copy. [69710 L76]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69710
                                                         $ 350.00

Presentation copy to William Maxwell Evarts, the noted New York
lawyer, later Attorney General and Secretary of State; Wilkes had
co-founded the National Police Gazette and helped introduce the
system of pari-mutuel betting to this country.

9.  [YEAR BOOKS].  William Fleetwood.  Annalium tam Regum Edwardi
quinti, Richardi tertii, & Henrici septimi, quam Henrici octavi.
Titulorum Ordine Alphabetico digestorum, Elenchus [etc.]. S.T.C.
11034; Beale T354.  In Aedibus Richardi Tottelli, London, 1579.
Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, the boards with centered
lozenges, a trace of worming (marginal), light browning; a very
good wide-margined copy. [69687 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69687   $ 1,750.00

First edition of the useful index of the year books of the century
preceeding the work's publication, by the well regarded Fleetwood,
double-Reader and Recorder of London, arranged alphabetically by
subject, the reign of Henry VIII separately treated.

10.  ZOUCH, R[ichard].  Cases and Questions Resolved in the
Civil-Law. Collected by R. Zouch Professor of the Civil-Law in
Oxford. Wing Z17.  Printed by Leon. Lichfield, for Tho. Robinson,
Oxford, 1652.  Modern cloth, ex-library, discreet repair to title,
top margin cut close affecting some page numerals, else quite a
good, clean copy. [69661 BLS540L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69661   $ 1,250.00

The first work in English of the noted civilian whom Holdsworth
groups with Gentili as the "two most important [English] writers"
on civil law, the fruits of his years as Regius Professor of Civil
Law at Oxford, emphasizing rights and courts' process.


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